The Naruto Secret: Scroll of People Character Official Databook (NARUTO-ナルト- 秘伝・者の書 キャラクターオフィシャルデータBOOK, NARUTO Hiden: Sha no Sho Kyarakutā Ofisharu DētaBOOK) is the fourth of the supplementary guidebooks on the Naruto series authored by Masashi Kishimoto. It is the third of four databooks and covers the chapters 245 to 402.

Contents

Contents

The contents of this book consist of detailed character profiles, articles on individual techniques and the mechanics behind them, information on several groups and missions, concept art and information on the development of several characters and scenes, a glossary with concepts from the series, several coloured images, and an omakechapter.

Trivia

The names of the guidebooks come a from a kuji-in: a collection of nine hand postures used in meditation. These kuji-in have found their way into ninja folklore as a kind of magic spells. The kuji-in the guidebooks were named after is Rin-pyō-tō-sha-kai-jin-retsu-zai-zen (臨兵闘者皆陣裂在前), with the Sha no Sho being named after the fourth.

At least in the English version of the Sha no Sho, Iwagakure is mislabelled as Ishigakure in the "how to read" section of character data.

At least in the English version, there is a common error where Suigetsu Hōzuki's name is misplaced as Kisame Hoshigaki's name.

Konohamaru's Sexy: Boy on Boy Technique and Sexy: Girl on Girl Technique, despite only being shown as silhouettes in the English manga, are not censored in the English edition of the Sha no Sho.